{"id":149,"date":"2006-08-27T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=149"},"modified":"2006-08-27T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T16:49:02","slug":"junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/27\/junk\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"

So then, hands up who is surprised to hear that more than 95% of all email is junk?<\/p>\n

No one? Good.<\/p>\n

The bane of my life, I receive a hell of a lot of junk each day. Yesterday. I got 47 emails that I consider to be spam. But it must be said that Saturdays generally generate less emails for me than a weekday.<\/p>\n

Anyway, analysis of the contents of millions of e-mails has revealed that less than 4% is legitimate traffic. Anti-virus<\/a> firm Sophos<\/a> has revealed the list of nations where most spam starts its journey across the net.<\/p>\n

Top of the list is the US as, according to Sophos, 23.2% of spam originates there. This is probably due to the fact that broadband<\/a> has become very popular in the US and has led many people leave inadequately protected PCs<\/a> connected to the net all the time. In the number two position was China<\/a> which sends out 20% of junk e-mail<\/a>. Significantly the US and China occupy the number one and two spots in counts of total numbers of net users.<\/p>\n

Next in the list come South Korea<\/a> (7.5%), France<\/a> (5.2%) and Spain<\/a> (4.8%). The UK<\/a> was tenth with 1.8%.
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Read the full report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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So then, hands up who is surprised to hear that more than 95% of all email is junk? No one? Good. The bane of my life, I receive a hell of a lot of junk each day. Yesterday. I got 47 emails that I consider to be spam. But it must be said that Saturdays […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[83,259,312,380,666,990,993,1183,1651,1800,2339,2799,2819,2820,3145],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-83","tag-antivirus-software","tag-august","tag-bbc","tag-china","tag-e-mail","tag-e-mail-spam","tag-france","tag-junk-mail","tag-linkage-2","tag-personal-computer","tag-sophos","tag-spain","tag-spam","tag-usa","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6OeSW-junk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}